Hope Virgo
@HopeVirgo
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Christian, Author, Multi-Award Winning mental health Campaigner, Founder of #DumpTheScales, Public Speaker, Member of @charterspeakers Instagram - @hopevirgo_
London, England
Joined September 2010
Another year with this brilliant festival!.
The @MentalWealthFST is back again in 2025! 🔥 . City Lit are once again hosting a selection on talks, panels, workshops and performances all in the name of discussing, restoring and enhancing mental health! 🧠 🍃. Learn more: See you in October!
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I am hearing More and more people being diagnosed with this as a way to move them on from the eating disorder team.
"What is Restrictive Intake Self Harm?". Pseudo-scientific, pop psychology bullshit made up on the back of a fag packet, that's what it is. When will psychiatry (and the field of eating disorders) stop playing acronym games with diagnostic categories?.It is deeply unsound.
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RT @DumpTheScales: Today at 4:30pm, MP Richard Quigley will lead a crucial Westminster Hall debate on the prevention of deaths from eating….
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RT @DumpTheScales: 👇Tag your MP in the comments.✉️ Email your MP and ask them to attend using our template: . 📖 If….
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Richard Quigley is hosting a crucial debate on Preventing Deaths in Eating Disorders tomorrow. Please help us get as many MPs there as possible.
👇Tag your MP in the comments.✉️ Email your MP and ask them to attend using our template: . 📖 If you are an MP email dumpthescales@gmail.com for a copy of the briefing document. 📺 Watch live on Parliament TV
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RT @DumpTheScales: Tomorrow MP Richard Quigley is hosting a crucial debate on the Prevention of Eating Disorder Deaths. MPs and represent….
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RT @DumpTheScales: The Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative is the UK’s largest ever research project on eating disorders. You can take pa….
edgiuk.org
The Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative is a project set up by King's College London, in collaboration with Beat, to explore genetic and environmental risk factors for eating disorders.
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Please read our new blog from Zoe Hazel about her experiences of Binge Eating Disorder, her struggles to get the support she needs and the toxic narrative around weight loss jabs. ⏬.
dumpthescales.org
Zoe Hazel, a mental health campaigner who spoke at this years #DumpTheScales march shares her thoughts on weight-loss injections as someone with binge eating disorder.
"There is no evidence that losing weight will suddenly make me ready for work, and fix the economy.". Zoe Hazel, one of our amazing campaigners has penned a blog on her experience of Binge Eating Disorder and the narrative around weight loss jabs. ⏩
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RT @DumpTheScales: Sending love to everyone collecting their GSCE results today. Whether you are celebrating or commiserating, remember t….
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RT @DumpTheScales: Many of you told us in our social media survey that you find certain accounts masquerading as 'pro-recovery' accounts on….
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RT @ptsafetylearn: “Safe care for every newborn and every child” is the theme of #WorldPatientSafetyDay on 17 September 2025. In this blog….
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Hope Virgo is an author, a multi award winning mental health campaigner, and secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for eating disorders. In this blog, she explores the patient...
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RT @DrOliverLewis: Mrs Justice Arbuthnot this week handed down her judgment in a significant eating disorder case in the Court of Protectio….
doughtystreet.co.uk
London, 31 July 2025.
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RT @edgi_uk: If you've joined EDGI UK and received a saliva kit, please send us your completed kit! . It's easy, free to do, and makes a wo….
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RT @DumpTheScales: Our first ever newsletter will be dropping into inboxes tomorrow. Make sure you are signed up to receive it⬇️. https://t.….
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RT @OpenMindMH: Thank you Wera Hobhouse for speaking up about the dangers that the rapid roll-out of weight loss jabs poses to individuals….
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RT @DumpTheScales: 🪧Did you attend the Dump the Scales March in London with us in June?🪧. We'd LOVE to know what you thought of it. Fill….
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RT @DumpTheScales: We are seriously concerned about the impact of weight loss jabs and how it will increase the risk of eating disorders in….
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Please join me and add your name to this open letter
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RT @DumpTheScales: Fabulous to see a new standardised data set for eating disorder services to collect about their patients. The data set….
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Please read our new blog about the expansion of weight loss jabs, the dangers they pose and why people with lived experience of eating disorders are calling Mounjaro, Wegovy etc. 'a medically prescribed eating disorder' .
dumpthescales.org
From what I can see, these jabs are functioning as a medically-prescribed eating disorder. I am watching friends and loved ones engage in the behaviours I worked so hard to address. I am watching...
📢New blog klaxon📢. A Dump the Scales campaigner, with lived experience of anorexia & bulimia discusses their concerns around the expansion of weight loss jabs including:. 🔵size discrimination .🔵how it will impact people with EDs + the public. Read ➡️
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